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Likely fueled by the success of the revival of Will & Grace, which is NBC’s highest rated and most watched comedy series, the network is making a push in multicamera sitcoms. It’s been a major trend during pitch season, with all Big 4 broadcast networks stockpiling on multicam projects, which are more lucrative from a…

IP rules in TV development nowadays, with inspiration coming from everywhere, including the home organization section in a bookstore. NBC is developing The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, a half-hour comedy from Burning Love creator Erica Oyama and veteran Greg Malins. The project, from Gail Berman’s The Jackal…

Comedy veteran Greg Malins has departed the new Rob Lowe-starring Fox comedy series The Grinder, where he served as executive producer and showrunner.
A search is under way for a new showrunner to join creators/executive producers Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul on the 20th Century Fox TV-produced comedy. In the interim…

Take It From Us, a half-hour comedy project from Friends alum Greg Malins, has been set up at NBC with a script commitment plus penalty. Sony TV, where Malins is under an overall deal, is producing. Co-written by Malins and Barry Schwartz, a co-producer on Malins’ upcoming TBS comedy series Your Family Or Mine, Take It…

TBS‘ new original comedy seriesGround Floor premiered Thursday night with 1.6 million viewers, including 918,000 adults 18-49. This is an unspectacular ratings start for the workplace romantic comedy, given its auspices. Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence wrote the sitcom with former Friends and How I Met Yo…

EXCLUSIVE: Friends and How I Met Your Mother alum Greg Malins has teamed with former Fox co-head of comedy Marcus Wiley for Odd Couple Families, a half-hour project that has sold to Fox with penalty. The comedy — produced by Sony Pictures TV, where Malins is under an overall deal — landed at Fox as part of Wiley’s…

An ensemble single-camera comedy pitch by up-and-coming writer Barry Schwartz, Sony TV and studio-based producers Greg Malins and Seth Gordon has sold to Fox. Written by Schwartz with Malins supervising/showrunning, The Worst Best Thing is described as an edgy, docu-style comedy about three couples — two with new…

In a competitive situation,Half, a half-hour single-camera comedy from 22–year-old actor-writer Matt Angel, has been bought by NBC with Sony TV producing. Veteran Greg Malins (Friends) is set as showrunner, and Matt’s dad Dan Angel (TNT’s Door To Door) is attached to exec produce. Based on a true story, Half centers…

I’ve learned that TBS is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to Ground Floor, a multi-camera comedy written by Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Lawrence and former Friends and How I Met Your Mother executive producer Malins. Gail Mancuso has come on board to direct the pilot, to be produced by Warner Horizon Television…

CBS just made what are expected to be the final comedy pilot pickups this season, greenlighting three projects. Two of them are multi-camera – one from Friends alum Greg Malins toplined by Rules Of Engagement star Patrick Warburton, which will likely get Rules fans alarmed; and one from former Scrubs executive…

In a competitive situation, ABC has landed Tribes, a single-camera comedy from veteran comedy showrunner Greg Malins, Sony Pictures TV and Jamie Tarses’ studio-based Fanfare. Tribes, which has received a script commitment plus penalty, is based on hit Israeli comedy series Your Family Or Mine? from Keshet, the leading…